Feeling so Much Better Thanks to my Weight Loss Quest

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I can’t believe how much better I feel.  Just over 6 months ago I was weighing in at 280 pounds.  My body was sluggish and felt somewhat blotted most of the time due to poor eating habits.  My poor body was working so hard just to keep up with all the stuff I was ingesting.  My joints hurt, and my other ailments were a constant nag.  I had to do something fast or just keep moving toward my eventual demise. 

By losing 50 lbs I think I have added at least 10 years to my life expectancy.  Looking better is just an extra perk.  I feel fantastic; I have more hours per day with energy for accomplishing work and play.  My happiness with life has improved dramatically. 

All of this is due to finding the right nutrition program and non-intense exercise routine based mostly on walking.  My food prep and eating time has actually been reduced.  My exercise time is about an hour per day.  

My meals are quite simple to prepare. I do most of my food chef-time all by myself.  I can easily recommend this program without hesitation.  It can help diabetics and low gluten needs.  The program has been tested over 30 years in real life situations and is recommended by over 20,000 doctors.  It doesn’t cost more than what is usually spent on food each month. 

My mentor is a Doctor of Chiropractic and he has helped me coach a good number of people now.  It is most enjoyable helping people get healthy.   

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I Love Helping People Lose Weight

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I have an arrangement with my weight-loss program to help people get a good start.  By ordering now I will help you get a great first order along with 28 bonus meals.  You will need several books in your first order for the details about the science behind the success of the nutrition.  I can make sure your shipping is free and you that you get 5% off subsequent orders. If you are not satisfied with results, you can send any unused food back for a refund. This is as no-risk as it comes.  I am that confident it will work for you.  Here is my link to get more information: 

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Break through those Stubborn Weight-loss Plateaus

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Breaking through the stubborn weight plateau after 3-4 weeks of good solid weight loss can be a game changer.  It can either build your confidence or break your will to go forward to new height or perhaps I should say depths of weight loss success.  Everyone hits plateaus during weight loss.  Most people are stopped in their tracks and stop momentum by falling back into old food habits.  Mini-binges take hold and weight starts creeping back on.  For me this always happened after 20 - 25 pounds came off usually at about 6 weeks into my diet and exercise. 

This time I learned new strategies from my nutrition program and other research.  Here are the secrets I used to move through plateaus and keep on losing weight.

1)      Recognize you are on a plateau and don’t let that discourage you since it will end soon and new weight loss momentum will start.

2)      Weigh in daily on a scale that measures 10^th of a pound so you can celebrate even 1/10^th of a pound of new weight loss. 

3)      Write your weight on a chart in a prominent place where you see it regularly.  Keep your mind focused on your goal. 

4)      MAKE SURE you are following your food program strictly, no deviations at all.  You are not the exception to the rule and need to trust the experts to keep you in the weight loss zone. 

5)      Step up the number of steps you are taking each day.  Take at least one good long walk each day and two if possible.  Strive for 10,000 steps each day.  I do this by staying active all day and walking for about an hour. 

6)      Have someone hide all your trigger foods that beckon you off your food program.  No ice cream, soda, candy bars, sugared cereals, etc. 

I will be surprised beyond measure if these steps don’t help you break through your plateaus.  Stay the course on your food program and exercise routine, until you get your ultimate weight loss goal.  Once there you need a good transition program as you take on more traditional food again.  Your new found eating habits and taste buds will help you maintain a good healthy weight for the rest of your life. If you do fall behind you can always go back on your weight loss food program to get back to your goal weight.    

My goal weight is 199 pounds and I am well on my way there.  If I can be of assistance or answer any questions please sign in at my website and I will call you.  Here is a link to my optimal health program that has helped me lose 50 pounds:  http://weightlosspowerusers.com/

A Wonderful Recipe for Zucchini-Lasagna

Food for helping with weight loss programs---80% of weight loss is eating the right food, six small meals a day.   


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The First 40 lbs Came Off in 3 Months---Now I am at 50 lbs Lighter

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The first 40 lbs came off in 3 months but the next 10 lbs took 3 more months.  Of course 2 of those months were holiday months in November and December and the darkest part of the winter, so I tended to cheat on my food and on my exercise plan. 

Then in January I took winter-break vacation with my sweetheart Jeannie to Las Vegas, buffet capitol of the world.  But in February I got back on my food and walking program.  The weight started to drop off again but at a less intense pace, at 3 lbs per week. 

Once the sun started to come back my body was prone to stay the course and I once again felt empowered to continue my quest to lose 81 total pounds and get to 199.  I spend about 7 hours per week at the gym or outside walking. I try to take 10,000 steps per day. I get out of my desk chair and walk around when I am on my cell phone. 

I had several funny pockets of fat that needed to be firmed up.  I can’t believe how far out of shape I allowed myself to get. But my body is changing and I feel better than I have for years.  My daily productivity has gone up and I enjoy life much more. 

My challenge is that I am a “projects” kind of guy.  Once I have a project I throw myself fully into the process and get so focused I allow other things to fall by the wayside.  I had a ten year project creating and building a new LDS Stake congregation that started at 2400 and grew to over 3000 with two chapels built during my tenure.  That took up almost all of my extra time outside of my profession as an educator. 

I tend to stress eat which was a daily routine during those ten years.  I gained mucho weight and my body suffered.  But once released I took on a personal project of getting back into shape.  It feels a bit self serving but is essential as I retire and move to the next phase of my life. 

Recently I realized it is not self serving but necessary in order to be more useful to my family, profession, and community.  My doctors have helped in various ways with encouragement and expertise. 

My Chiropractor/health-coach has been superb in keeping me motivated.  This is one of the most satisfying things I have ever done. 

I love my food program because of its glycemic balance and it works just like they said it would.  I have tried the others and never been able to push past 25 pounds off before yo-yoing.  The main difference this time is the ease of the food program and the coaching I have received.  Can you tell I love what this program has done for me? 

I have many friends who have accomplished similar goals so it is not just uniquely suited to my circumstances.  It also helps older people, diabetics, and others with special situations.  The program has been recommended by over 20,000 doctors.  If you need to lose 20 lbs or more it is worth looking at. 

Let me know if you have questions.  Here is a link to my website with photos as well as testimonials about the program:  
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New Insights---Hunger, Health, and Happiness

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Hunger, Health, and Happiness; a title stirring in my brain as I awoke this morning.  Many years ago I learned concepts of self-discipline when I was not disciplined much at all.  I was more than a typical self absorbed young adult trying to learn how to live on my own and prepare for my future. 

I skirted on the edge of rules at a conservative university feeling like I deserved some uniqueness. One day I realized that uniqueness is more those who learn how to control their lives than those who let life take them where every wind of cultural fancy blew. 

I wanted to be good at what my profession might be someday.  I wanted to do well in school so I could have opportunity open up to me.  I listened to a presentation which taught skills for time management.  I read a book about how to read a book faster.  I tried to improve my study skills.  I made list after list of things I needed to do to improve myself. 

Somehow I was still missing the improvement I expected.  The lesson for me was that learning self-discipline is like weight lifting.  You don’t go from bench pressing 125 to 215 over night.  It takes time and persistence to generate new habits to a self-perpetuating lifestyle. I would have to be patient as the new me emerged, or just give in to failure and mediocrity.  Patience was not my norm.  I needed an 8 week boot-camp so I could come out a different creature.  I had no idea growing up was going to be so hard. 

The rest of the school year went OK with incremental changes.  But boot-camp was still needed.  I chose a two year mission experience for my Church as my crucible.  I intended to be the hardest working most obedient missionary ever.  Talk about an extended boot-camp; missions are monk-like discipleship.  I was determined to survive. 

Now don’t get me wrong, I loved serving the people of British Columbia and Alaska, many of whom were native North Americans. But dirty moldy bathrooms, cots to sleep on, peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches or cold cereal at most meals, 16 hour work days, -50 degree weather, 90+% rejection, no television or other entertainment when you need to “chill”,  restricted library, constant return&report prying eyes, and a culture that insisted on not giving up, caused my free-spirit to feel claustrophobic.  But I was determined to finish the course. 

In late 1973 I left for home after two full years of self imposed spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual boot-camp. It was the most difficult thing I had done up to that point in my young life.  When I went back to college in January I discovered I had changed.  My focus was better, I had goals.  I was more interested in what the professors were trying to teach me.  My grades took a huge leap forward.  My boot-camp had done the trick.  Self-discipline was no longer the anomaly.  It had become much more natural. 

Now here is where Hunger, Health, and Happiness come in.  It takes a decent amount of self discipline to maximize happiness.  If we are too self absorbed we get out of balance and happiness suffers.  But learning to take care of the essential ingredients of life: hunger and health make it possible to access maximum strength and happiness.  A trusted Church leader taught me that in order to be of service to mankind, I must first learn to control my own appetites and passions.  Then I would be capable of helping others along the way.  His famous speech was titled “Know Thyself, Control Thyself, Give Thyself”.

So here I am 40 years after my boot-camp having made similar mistakes as in my younger years.  But this time the reason was different.  I had been serving others non-stop since I came out of my original boot camp and forgot to continue to control my appetites. I had gained a total of 100 pounds since I left my mission experience at age 21. 

So I have created a new boot-camp, but this time I sleep in a cozy bed in our comfortable home and have not had to go monk-like. My boot-camp is teaching me new habits to take care of my health and hunger.  I am eating differently now.  I am in my 6^th week of my weight loss program. 

My body is changing and my attitude is improving. My energy is up and my productivity is better.  My creativity is skyrocketing.  I have been caught off guard by how many things have changed since I determined to put some good old fashioned self-discipline back into my health habits.  Even my golf game improved.    

I have a long way to go.  I am particularly anxious to get to my goal-weight of 199 lbs so I can go on a maintenance program and keep the new habits firmly set.  I refuse to yo-yo this time.  I will be more useful to my wife, my family, my profession, and others.  Besides, it’s really nice to feel so much better physically.  Hunger, Health, and Happiness is my new mantra.   Happiness for me and thereby for others around me.           

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